Herbal medicines for diabetes control among Indian and Pakistani migrants with diabetes.

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Abstract
Drawing on data collected during a 16-month ethnographic investigation, this paper explores practices around Indians' and Pakistanis' use of herbal medications for diabetes control. The ethnographic study was conducted among Indian and Pakistani migrants in Edinburgh, Scotland and included extended participant observation, six group discussions and 21 semi-structured interviews. Respondents showed great resistance in adhering to medication prescriptions for diabetes control due to their various side effects, especially within the stomach. In order to avoid such side effects, respondents decreased medication dosage and turned to non-allopathic remedies that usually consisted of herbal medications that, according to Indians and Pakistanis, did not cause side effects as medications did and tackled the cause of the disease rather than its symptoms. Such remedies however, were not only combined with allopathic ones but also eventually replaced without the doctor's consultation.
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Authors Porqueddu, Tania;
Journal anthropology & medicine
Year 2017
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10.1080/13648470.2016.1249338
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Diabetes self-management chronic disease indian migrants pakistani migrants medical pluralism

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